Autonomy: Applications and Implications

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-90-411-0563-9
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 785 g

Autonomy arrangements have gradually become more numerous, and different developments in respect of autonomy can be discerned in the fields of international and domestic law. The patterns of autonomy are quite disparate, but because various fields of law treat autonomy in different ways, it is fruitful to inquire into the applications of autonomy and to ask what autonomy as such implies.

Autonomy is a multi-faceted phenomenon which on the one hand contains the issue of devolution or decentralization of law-making or other normative powers in the institutional fabric of the country without any minority protection component; on the other hand it may in addition contain an explicit minority protection component designed to offer special protection to minority groups in society.

Especially in the latter sense, the issue of effective participation of a minority in the government is an important issue, and in this respect, there is a connection between autonomy and a general understanding of democracy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suksi, Markku

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Abbreviations.
I. Introduction; M. Suksi.
II. On the Legal Understanding of Autonomy; H.-J. Heinze.
III. On the Ethics of Minority Protection; J. Räikkä.
IV. Political Autonomy: Ambiguities and Clarifications; M. Wiberg.
V. Autonomy as a Conflict-Solving Mechanism – An Overview; K.-Å. Nordquist.
VI. Self-Determination and Autonomy in International Law; L. Hannikainen.
VII. Images of Autonomy and Individual and Collective Rights in International Instruments on the Rights of Minorities; P. Thornberry.
VIII. Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy; G. Alfredsson.
IX. The Procedural Position of Autonomous Regions Before International Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Organs; A. Spiliopoulou Åkermark.
X. On the Entrenchment of Autonomy; M. Suksi.
XI. Regionalism and Federalism in the Italian Constitutional Experience; S. Bartole.
XII. Regionalization and Autonomy in Spain: The Making of the `Estado de las Autonomías'; C.F. Juberías.
XIII. Autonomy and the British Constitution; P.M. Leopold.
XIV. Cultural Autonomy: Concept, Content, History and Role in the World Order; A. Eide, et al.
XV. The Beneficiaries of Autonomy Arrangements – With Special Reference to Indigenous Peoples in General and the Sami in Finland in Particular; K. Myntti.
XVI. Autonomy Within the OSCE: The Case of Crimea; J. Packer.
XVII. Autonomy and the Council of Europe – With Special Reference to the Application of Article 3 of the First Protocol of the European Convention of Human Rights; S. Lewis-Anthony.
XVIII. Autonomy and the European Union; I. Bullain.
XIX. Concluding Remarks; M. Suksi.
Subject Index.
Table of Cases.